What Is Considered Long Hair

Ask any hairstylist that has been in the business for a length of

time how many clients have asked them “what is considered long hair?” While most are used to hair in various lengths, the view of the client is usually vastly different from the salon’s!

Over the time I have been in the salon and been asked “what is considered long hair” there

was usually a number of areas that needed addressing:

A disagreement about price,
Why does the appointment take the length of time stated and not less
Confirmation of my qualifications
Comparisons with their “real” hairstylist’s skills
Declarations and/or testimonials of what their “real” hairstylist would charge
Why my price estimation was “incredible/ridiculous”, and finally
Appealing to my faith in god/our culture.

Everyone has their own idea of what is considered long hair, but usually in the salon price

of service was determined by:

Any length touching the shoulders
Hair that touches the shoulder blades
Hair falling in the middle of the back or longer
Sometimes the thickness of your hair, not straightened, gets them treated as longer hair.

There have been times in my career that:

clients with hair that curled into a small afro but stretched to their shoulder blades when blow dried, say their hair is short;
Ladies from certain countries that had hair reaching the middle of their back, argue that their hair was short because in their family, they had the shortest hair.